A video of a man trying to do a stunt before a moving train in India’s financial hub of Mumbai, shared by the federal Ministry of Railways, shows the man escaped death by a whisker.
While the ministry chose to impart wisdom on the issue, trying to dissuade people from crossing railway tracks to save a few minutes, Twitter users mocked the young man and the state of Indian Railways.
Indian Railways responded saying that “trespassing tracks is a punishable offence, don’t do it!” According to information shared by the federal Railway Ministry with Parliament, in 2018 nearly 50,000 people lost their lives on railway tracks, hit by trains.